In search of lost time.Marcel Proust -Swann's Way- (Videobooks) Page 11

In search of lost time.Marcel Proust -Swann's Way- (Videobooks) Page 11 on the other hand, my relatives could pour into his face, devoid of its charms, filled with nothing and capacious, into the depths of eyes that had lost their charm, a vague and sweet sediment - half alive, half forgotten - left over from the hours of leisure spent weekly with him after dinner in the garden or at the card table, at the time of our rural good neighborliness. The corporeal shell of our friend was so saturated with all this, as well as the memories of his parents, that this Swann became a complete and living being, and I get the impression that I am parting with one person and leaving for another, unlike him, when, straining my memory, I pass from that Swann, whom I later knew well, to the first Swann, in him I again recognize the captivating delusions of my youth, and, by the way, he looks not so much like the second Swann, but like other people, with whom I was then familiar with: one might think that our life is a museum, where all the portraits of one era have a family resemblance, a common tone - to the first Swan, exuding leisure, smelling of tall chestnut, raspberries and - a little bit - dragon grass. However, one day, when my grandmother asked the Marquise de Villeparisi, from the noble family of Bouillon, whom she met in Sacré-Coeur (and with whom, in accordance with our idea of castes, despite mutual sympathy, she did not want to maintain relations ), the marquise said to her: "If I'm not mistaken, you're on good terms with Swann, a close friend of my nephews named de Lom." Grandmother returned delighted with the house overlooking the garden - the Marquise de Villeparisi advised her to rent an apartment here - and also with the waistcoat and his daughter, who had an establishment in the yard and where, having torn her skirt on the stairs, she went to ask to mend it. To my grandmother, these people seemed the height of perfection; she announced that the baby was a real treasure, and that she had never met such well-mannered, such nice people as a waistcoat. The fact is that good breeding, in her opinion, did not at all depend on social status. She admired one answer of the waistcoat and said to her mother: “So you wouldn’t tell Sevigny!” But about the nephew of the Marquise de Villeparisi, whom she saw with her, the grandmother responded like this: “Ah, daughter, how ordinary he is!” The words of the Marquise de Villeparisi about Swann did not raise him in the eyes of my great-aunt, and the Marquise de Villeparisi was humiliated. It seemed that the respect that we, relying on my grandmother, had for the Marquise de Villeparisi, obliged her not to drop her dignity in our eyes, but she dropped it, because she knew about the existence of Swann and allowed her relatives to hang out with him. "How! Does she know Swann? And you still assure me that she is related to Marshal MacMahon!” The opinion of my relatives about Swann's acquaintances was strengthened, as they believed, by his marriage to a woman from a bad society, almost a cocotte, whom, however, he did not try to present to us, continuing to be alone, although less and less, but who seemed to give them the ability to judge an environment unknown to them, and yet they assumed that he took it from there, where he constantly rotated. But then one day grandfather read in the newspaper that Swan was a regular visitor to Sunday breakfasts at Duke X, whose father and uncle held the highest posts under Louis Philippe. It should be noted that grandfather showed a special curiosity for all sorts of small facts that helped him mentally penetrate the private lives of people like Molay, like the Duke of Paquier, like the Duke of Broy. He was happy that Swan was meeting people who knew them. Archimed Production Studio produces high-quality feature films, documentaries and animation films and 360-degree panoramic animation. Winner of five international film festivals. We invite to cooperation of independent producers, distributors, investors . If you have any questions, please write to the e-mail: transfert@mail.ru The animation of all the characters in real time 3d